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• Thin Blue Line, The - The Complete Thin Blue Line | DVD | (17/09/2001) from £17.96   |  Saving you £-7.97 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Set in a fictitious suburb rather like, say, Pinner (only more so), The Thin Blue Line is the wickedly funny story of a rather down-at-heel police station headed by Inspector Raymond Fowler (Rowan Atkinson), a pompous, repressed but well-intentioned anachronism who wants to do the right thing but who is constantly hampered by his own shortcomings, not to mention his blundering CID colleagues. Atkinson expertly balances his character's inflated sense of self-importance with the insight born of old-school police values, for which his galumphing, shiny-suited CID counterpart, DI Grim (David Haig) has no time at all. Strongest among the supporting cast is Sgt Pauline Dawkins (Serena Evans), who also happens to be Fowler's live-in lover--a moral dilemma that his traditional values won't allow him to resolve. He salves his conscience by avoiding sex with her whenever possible, an amusing subplot enhanced by Evans's brilliant performance--she positively vibrates with contained, ladylike lust in a manner only equalled by Penelope Keith in the classic sitcom To the Manor Born. Scripted by Ben Elton, this series manages to satirise provincialism, institutionalised pig-headedness and dated moral values in one fell swoop, while also being chock-full of quick-fire, Blackadder-esque dialogue. --Roger Thomas

• The Piglet Files - The Complete First Series | DVD | (17/01/2011) from £8.38   |  Saving you £4.61 (55.01%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Starring Nicholas Lyndhurst Clive Francis and Michael Percival The Piglet Files is the sitcom that truly lifts the lid on the shadowy world of espionage during the early '90s - with quite startling results. Electronics lecturer Peter Chapman (Lyndhurst) may have fantasised about a James Bond lifestyle but disillusion quickly sets in when he finds himself coerced into working for M15 only to find his spymasters are a collection of misinformed bungling incompetents. Nevertheless as gadgets expert Piglet Puma and Panther were sadly already in use he uses all his skill to combat not only the Soviet agents who are his bosses are convinced as active as ever but a still greater menace: the French secret service! Peter's toughest challenge however seems to be dealing with wife Sarah's suspicions about her husband's increasingly strange activities...

• The Piglet Files - The Complete Series 2 | DVD | (16/04/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Starring Nicholas Lyndhurst (Only Fools and Horses), Clive Francis and Michael Percival, The Piglet Files is the sitcom that truly lifts the lid on the shadowy world of espionage during the early nineties with quite startling results. Coerced into working for M15 only to find his spymasters are a collection of misinformed, bungling incompetents, electronics lecturer Peter Chapman is hapless gadgets expert Piglet Puma and Panther being already in use and he s feeling the pressure. This series finds the unlikely agent attempting to steal a former agent's memoirs, searching for a mole near the top of MI5... and falling headlong into a KGB honey trap!

• Hale and Pace - The Complete Series 2 | DVD | (02/07/2012) from £7.95   |  Saving you £5.04 (63.40%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Following a one-off Christmas special in 1986, Hale and Pace became household names with this phenomenally successful series for LWT. A rapidly paced, occasionally notorious mix of stand-up and sketches that stayed just the right side of Broadcasting Standards, the series won the Silver Rose at Montreux and made the two former PE teachers one of the most mimicked comedy acts in television history.This complete second series sees Gareth and Norman visiting a centre for Guide Cats, lifting the lid on Moroccan cuisine, displaying their beer guts and finding out whether the American doughnut-and-hamburger diet really works. We also catch up with the Two Rons - the legendary tuxedoed heavies later to enjoy fame on their own terms as The Management - and kids' TV presenters Billy and Johnny, who find themselves at an Acid House party...

• The Piglet Files - The Complete Series 3 | DVD | (12/11/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Nicholas Lyndhurst Clive Francis and Michael Percival star in the hit sitcom that truly lifts the lid on the shadowy world of espionage during the early nineties – with quite startling results.